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First ( Fall ) Semester ( TOTAL = 15 cr )
[medium CIVE 281] [medium COMP 202] [medium MATH 262] [medium MATH 263]
XXXX xxx (3) Humanities and Social Sciences *
Curriculum for entry from CEGEP can be found below.
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Computer Engineering 7 Semester Program [.pdf]
First ( Fall ) Semester ( TOTAL = 15 cr )
CIVE 281. Analytical Mechanics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Civil Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Kinematics of particles, dynamics of particles. Work, conservative forces, potential energy. Relative motion and general moving frames of reference. Central force fields and orbits. Dynamics of a system of particles. General motion of rigid bodies, angular momentum and kinetic energy of rigid bodies. Generalized coordinates and forces, Lagrange's equations.
- (3-1-5)
- Corequisites: MATH 262, MATH 263.
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COMP 202. Foundations of Programming.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Introduction to computer programming in a high level language: variables, expressions, primitive types, methods, conditionals, loops. Introduction to algorithms, data structures (arrays, strings), modular software design, libraries, file input/output, debugging, exception handling. Selected topics.
- Restriction Note N: COMP 202 cannot be taken for credit with or after COMP 250.
- 3 hours
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 204, COMP 208, or GEOG 333; not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 206 or COMP 250.
- COMP 202 is intended as a general introductory course, while COMP 204 is intended for students in life sciences, and COMP 208 is intended for students in physical sciences and engineering.
- To take COMP 202, students should have a solid understanding of pre-calculus fundamentals such as polynomial, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions.
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Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Series and power series, including Taylor's theorem. Brief review of vector geometry. Vector functions and curves. Partial differentiation and differential calculus for vector valued functions. Unconstrained and constrained extremal problems. Multiple integrals including surface area and change of variables.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 151, MATH 152, OR MATH 222.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: MATH 141, MATH 133 or equivalent.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 151, MATH 152, OR MATH 222.
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MATH 263. Ordinary Differential Equations for Engineers.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
First order ODEs. Second and higher order linear ODEs. Series solutions at ordinary and regular singular points. Laplace transforms. Linear systems of differential equations with a short review of linear algebra.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 315 or MATH 325.
- (3-1-5)
- Corequisite: MATH 262.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 315 or MATH 325.
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XXXX xxx (3) Humanities and Social Sciences *
Second ( Winter ) Semester ( TOTAL = 16 cr )
COMP 250. Introduction to Computer Science.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Mathematical tools (binary numbers, induction,recurrence relations, asymptotic complexity,establishing correctness of programs). Datastructures (arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists,trees, binary trees, binary search trees, heaps,hash tables). Recursive and non-recursivealgorithms (searching and sorting, tree andgraph traversal). Abstract data types. Objectoriented programming in Java (classes andobjects, interfaces, inheritance). Selected topics.
- Restriction Note M: COMP 250 and COMP 203 cannot both be taken for credit.
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite(s): MATH 140 or equivalent. COMP 202 or COMP 204 or COMP 208 (or equivalent).
- Corequisite(s): MATH 133
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECSE 250.
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ECSE 200. Electric Circuits 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Circuit variables. Analysis of resistive circuits, network theorems (Kirchhoff鈥檚 laws, Ohm鈥檚 law, Norton and Thevenin equivalent). Ammeters, Voltmeters, and Ohmmeters. Analysis methods (nodal and mesh analysis, linearity, superposition). Dependent sources and Op-Amps. Energy storage elements. First and second order circuits.
- Corequisite: MATH 261 or MATH 263 or MATH 325.
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
- This course in the Faculty of Engineering is open only to 51吃瓜网students.
- (4-2-3)
- Prerequisite: PHYS 142 or CEGEP equivalent.
- Corequisite: MATH 263
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
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FACC 100. Introduction to the Engineering Profession.
Credits: 1
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to engineering practice; rights and code of conduct for students; professional conduct and ethics; engineer's duty to society and the environment; sustainable development; occupational health and safety; overview of the engineering disciplines taught at McGill.
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MATH 264. Advanced Calculus for Engineers.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Review of multiple integrals. Differential and integral calculus of vector fields including the theorems of Gauss, Green, and Stokes. Introduction to partial differential equations, separation of variables, Sturm-Liouville problems, and Fourier series.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students taking or having taken MATH 248, MATH 265 or MATH 314.
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 319 or MATH 375.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: MATH 262 or MATH 151 or MATH 152 or equivalent.
- Corequisite: MATH 263
- Restrictions: Open only to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Not open to students who are taking or have taken MATH 319 or MATH 475.
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Third ( Fall ) Semester (TOTAL = 17 cr )
ECSE 210. Electric Circuits 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Second-order circuits. Sinusoidal sources and phasors. AC steady-state analysis. AC steady-state power. Laplace transform. Circuit analysis in the s-Domain. Two-port circuits. Elementary continuous signals, impulse functions, basic properties of continuous linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. Frequency analysis of continuous-time LTI systems.
- This course in the Faculty of Engineering is open only to 51吃瓜网students.
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
- This course in the Faculty of Engineering is open only to 51吃瓜网students.
- For Fall Term: Limited to Electrical Honours and Computer Engineering students only.
- For Winter Term: Limited to Regular Electrical Engineering students only.
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
- (4-2-3)
- Prerequisite: ECSE 200
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ECSE 211. Design Principles and Methods.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Engineering process: design specifications, parameters, optimization, implementation, troubleshooting and refinement; project management: scheduling, risk analysis, project control; case studies; design examples and project.
- Corequisite: ECSE 291.
- (2-6-1)
- Prerequisite(s): ECSE 200 and (ECSE 202 or COMP 202)
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XXXX xxx (3) Basic Science Complementary
XXXX xxx (3) Impact of Technology on Society **
Fourth ( Winter ) Semester ( TOTAL = 15 cr )
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ECSE 321. Introduction to Software Engineering.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Design, development and testing of software systems. Software life cycle: requirements analysis, software architecture and design, implementation, integration, test planning, and maintenance. The course involves a group project.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites: ECSE 223 and (COMP 202 or COMP 208 or ECSE 202)
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
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ECSE 330. Introduction to Electronics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to electronic circuits using operational amplifiers, PN junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), and MOS field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), including: terminal characteristics, large- and small-signal models; configuration and frequency response of single-stage amplifiers with discrete biasing. Introduction to SPICE. Simulation experiments.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: ECSE 210
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
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Fifth ( Fall ) Semester ( TOTAL = 17 cr )
COMP 251. Algorithms and Data Structures.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Data Structures: priority queues, balanced binary search trees, hash tables, graphs. Algorithms: topological sort, connected components, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, bipartite matching, network flows. Algorithm design: greedy, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, randomization. Mathematicaltools: proofs of asymptotic complexity and program correctness, Master theorem.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 252.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 252.
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: COMP 250; MATH 235 or MATH 240
- COMP 251 uses basic counting techniques (permutations and combinations) that are covered in MATH 240 but not in MATH 235. These techniques will be reviewed for the benefit of MATH 235 students.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking: COMP 252 or COMP 260.
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ECSE 305. Probability and Random Signals 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The basic probability model, the heuristics of model-building and the additivity of probability; classical models; conditional probability and Bayes rule; random variables and vectors, distribution and density functions, expectation; statistical independence, laws of large numbers, central limit theorem; introduction to random processes and random signal analysis.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisite: ECSE 303 or ECSE 306.
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
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ECSE 353. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Divergence, gradient and curl. The divergence theorem and Stokes鈥� theorem. Maxwell鈥檚 equations in integral and differential form. Waves in free space and on transmission lines. Electric and magnetic force and energy. Magnetic materials. Faraday's law. Applications to engineering problems. S-parameters.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites: ECSE 210, MATH 262, MATH 263
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
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ECSE 427. Operating Systems.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Operating system services, file system organization, disk and cpu scheduling, virtual memory management, concurrent processing and distributed systems, protection and security. Aspects of the DOS and UNIX operating systems and the C programming language. Programs that communicate between workstations across a network.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisite: ECSE 324 or COMP 273
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
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Sixth ( Winter ) Semester ( TOTAL = 16 cr )
ECSE 334. Introduction to Microelectronics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Single-stage integrated-circuit amplifiers; differential and multistage amplifiers, integrated-circuit biasing techniques; non-ideal characteristics, frequency response; feedback amplifiers, output stages; digital CMOS logic circuits.
- (3-2-4)
- Prerequisites: ECSE 291, ECSE 303 or ECSE 306, ECSE 330.
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
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ECSE 425. Computer Architecture.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Trends in technology. CISC vs. RISC architectures. Pipelining. Instruction level parallelism. Data and Control Hazards. Static prediction. Exceptions. Dependencies. Loop level paralleism. Dynamic scheduling, branch prediction. Branch target buffers. Superscalar and N-issue machines. VLIW. ILP techniques. Cache analysis and design. Interleaved and virtual memory. TLB translations and caches.
- (3-1-5)
- Prerequisites: ECSE 324
- Tutorials assigned by instructor.
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ECSE 426. Microprocessor Systems.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Electrical & Computer Engr (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to current microprocessors, their architecture, programming, interfacing and operating systems. The course includes lectures, use of crossassemblers, and simulators as well as laboratory experiments on actual microprocessor hardware.
- (1-5-3)
- Prerequisites: (CCOM 206 or WCOM 206) and ECSE 323.
- This course may be counted as a technical complementary or a lab complementary.
- Limited Enrolment (50)
- Lab hours assigned by instructor.
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ECSE 4xx t1 (3) Technical Complementary 1
Seventh ( Fall ) Semester ( TOTAL = 14 cr )
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FACC 400. Engineering Professional Practice.
Credits: 1
Offered by: Engineering - Dean's Office (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Laws, regulations and codes governing engineering professional practice. Responsibility and liability. Environmental legislation. Project and organization management. Relations between engineer and client. Technical practice - analysis, design, execution and operation.
- (1.5-1-0.5)
- Prerequisites: FACC 250 and [at least 60 program credits for B.Eng./B.S.E. students in the Faculty of Engineering or 45 program credits for B.Eng.(Bioresource) students].
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 221.
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ECSE 4xx t2 (3) Technical Complementary 2
ECSE 4xx t3 (3) Technical Complementary 3
ECSE 4xx (2 or 3) Lab Complementary
NOTES
Core courses are shown in boldface. All core courses must be passed with a grade "C" or better. Also, a grade of "C" is required for an ECSE xxx core course in order to proceed with its follow-on ECSE xxx course(s), and a grade of "C" is required for a MATH xxx course in order to proceed with its follow-on MATH xxx course(s). A grade of "D" is only acceptable for technical, laboratory, and general complementaries.
Technical Complementary courses are selected from this list.
The Lab Complementary course is normally taken in conjunction with a technical complementary.聽
* "Humanities and Social Sciences" courses must be chosen from subsection II of section 9.3.4 of the
** The "Impact of Technology on Society" course must be chosen from subsection I of section 9.3.4 of the
This sample curriculum is only for students who wish to complete their degree requirements in 7 semesters. Students may, at any time, deviate from this structure. However, it will be the student's responsibility to devise a study plan that has no course conflicts or prerequisite/corequisite violations. Academic advisors are available for help with course selection.